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re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings

Posted by: lowwriter 11:15 am EST 11/17/14
In reply to: re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings - davei2000 11:12 am EST 11/17/14

I was wondering about that as well. I thought the play might have been inspired by an isolated school shooting somewhere in the UK.


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re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings

Posted by: davei2000 11:20 am EST 11/17/14
In reply to: re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings - lowwriter 11:15 am EST 11/17/14

I haven't found reference to one in the UK since 1996, in which an adult was the shooter.
Handguns were banned in the UK in 1997.


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re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings

Posted by: NeoAdamite 03:21 pm EST 11/17/14
In reply to: re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings - davei2000 11:20 am EST 11/17/14

Handguns were banned in the UK in 1997.

Yes, the play had me wondering about that, too; but not the UK reviewers.


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re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings

Posted by: ukpaul 01:33 pm EST 11/17/14
In reply to: re: PUNK ROCK recommendation + warnings - davei2000 11:20 am EST 11/17/14

Yes, the Dunblane shooting from aabout twenty years ago is the only one I can recall. Guns aren't freely available so people don't get shot, there's been the occasional knifing but it's difficult to create a massacre with that method. The most shocking was recently in a classroom where a student stabbed a teacher in the back and killed her.

Link BBC Article (warning - may be upsetting)

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